scholarly journals Cloud Data Privacy Preserving Model for Health Information Systems Based on Multi Factor Authentication

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-367
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Clinical Information System ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Cost Utility ◽  
Personal Health Information ◽  
Patient Side

With cloud computing (CC) becoming popular in recent years, variety of institutions, organizations, businesses and individual users are creating interest. They are adopting the technology in order to take advantage of shared web applications, low infrastructure cost, utility and distributed computing, cluster computing as well as reliable IT architecture. In the area of health, Cloud Health Information Systems (CHIS) play a key role not only on the healthcare businesses but patients as well. On the patient side, CHIS aid in sharing of medical data and health information, timely access of critical patient information and coordination of clinical services. Patients, who continue to demand for instantaneous and quality healthcare services are now able to access the services from experts even when they are not necessarily in the same physical location. This is being aided by proliferation of telemedicine through hosted cloud architecture. From the business perspective, CC has helped to cut down operational expenses by way of cost-effective clinical information system infrastructure through the implementation of a distributed platform. The platform has therefore saved businesses millions of dollars that would have gone to infrastructural and human resource investment. Even with these immense opportunities, cloud computing uptake has been serious inhibited by the privacy and security concerns. Due to the sensitivity of personal health information, businesses and individuals are apprehensive when it comes to adopting the technology or releasing the data to the cloud. This study is a results discussion of an enhanced model for attainment of data privacy on the cloud through use of multi factor authentication.

scholarly journals Health Information Systems in the Digital Health Ecosystem—Problems and Solutions for Ethics, Trust and Privacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 3006
Author(s):  
Pekka Ruotsalainen ◽  
Bernd Blobel
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Personal Health Information ◽  
Intellectual Property Right ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Computational Trust ◽  
Trust Models

Digital health information systems (DHIS) are increasingly members of ecosystems, collecting, using and sharing a huge amount of personal health information (PHI), frequently without control and authorization through the data subject. From the data subject’s perspective, there is frequently no guarantee and therefore no trust that PHI is processed ethically in Digital Health Ecosystems. This results in new ethical, privacy and trust challenges to be solved. The authors’ objective is to find a combination of ethical principles, privacy and trust models, together enabling design, implementation of DHIS acting ethically, being trustworthy, and supporting the user’s privacy needs. Research published in journals, conference proceedings, and standards documents is analyzed from the viewpoint of ethics, privacy and trust. In that context, systems theory and systems engineering approaches together with heuristic analysis are deployed. The ethical model proposed is a combination of consequentialism, professional medical ethics and utilitarianism. Privacy enforcement can be facilitated by defining it as health information specific contextual intellectual property right, where a service user can express their own privacy needs using computer-understandable policies. Thereby, privacy as a dynamic, indeterminate concept, and computational trust, deploys linguistic values and fuzzy mathematics. The proposed solution, combining ethical principles, privacy as intellectual property and computational trust models, shows a new way to achieve ethically acceptable, trustworthy and privacy-enabling DHIS and Digital Health Ecosystems.

A Survey of Security Standards Applicable to Health Information Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Akowuah ◽  
Xiaohong Yuan ◽  
Jinsheng Xu ◽  
Hong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Personal Health Information ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Security Standards

The information maintained by Health Information Systems (HIS) is often faced with security threats from a wide range of sources. Some government's regulations require healthcare organizations and custodians of personal health information to take practical steps to address the security and privacy needs of personal health information. Standards help to ensure an adequate level of security is attained, resources are used efficiently and the best security practices are adopted. In this paper, the authors survey security standards applicable to healthcare industry including Control OBjective for Information and related Technology (COBIT), ISO/IEC 27002:2005, ISO/IEC 27001:2005, NIST Special Publication 800-53, ISO 27799:2008, HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF), ISO 17090:2008, ISO/TS 25237:2008, etc. This survey informs the audience currently available standards that can guide the implementation of information security programs in healthcare organizations, and provides a starting point for IT management in healthcare organizations to select a standard suitable for their organizations.

Human Interaction in the Use of Health Information Systems

2016 ◽  
pp. 257-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irja N. Shaanika
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Single Formula

In developing countries, Health Information Systems (HISs) are increasingly used to enable and support both clinical and administrative processes for healthcare services. The use of the HISs in developing countries' healthcare centres is influenced and impacted by humans' interactions which manifests from culture and traditions. Due to the diverse nature of culture and traditions, it is near impossible to have single formula in addressing the patients' needs. As a result, the aim to improve quality of healthcare through HISs is challenged, and many stakeholders do not seem to understand the problem. The challenge continues to significantly contribute to poor service delivery, as the need for healthcare services increases. This study focused on the interaction between the healthcare professionals and the HISs, to understand how and why the challenges of using the ICT systems exist. This includes examining the implication, and how the challenges impact the recipients of healthcare services.

scholarly journals Section 3: Health Information Systems: Health Information Systems: Between Shared Care and Body Area Networks

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-56
Author(s):  
O. J. Bott ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Patient Empowerment ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Wearable Systems ◽  
Excellent Research

SummaryTo summarize current excellent research in the field of health information systems (HIS).Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2006.Current research in the field of HIS is focused on supporting transinstitutional health care processes including health record systems, integration of new data types and knowledge based decision support, patient empowerment, the utilization of new technologies like wearable systems or ubiquitous computing in home and personal care, and methods and tools for the analysis, development, management, and evaluation of HIS.The best paper selection of articles on HIS comprises examples of excellent research on integration of HIS based on standards for electronic health records, methods and tools for HIS oriented change management, the use of wearable systems for telemedical surveillance of chronically ill patients, technology driven home care concepts for the elderly and physically disabled, and data privacy issues arising from the emergence of new clinical data types in the context of biomedicine. Besides successful research concerning important aspects of HIS, achieving interoperability and integration of health information subsystems and technology remains an important field of work.

A User-Centered, Object-Oriented Methodology for Developing Health Information Systems: A Clinical Information System (CIS) Example

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Konstantinidis ◽  
George C. Anastassopoulos ◽  
Alexandros S. Karakos ◽  
Emmanouil Anagnostou ◽  
Vasileios Danielides
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Clinical Information System ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Clinical Information ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
User Centered

Human Interaction in the Use of Health Information Systems

2017 ◽  
pp. 1294-1306
Author(s):  
Irja N. Shaanika
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Single Formula

In developing countries, Health Information Systems (HISs) are increasingly used to enable and support both clinical and administrative processes for healthcare services. The use of the HISs in developing countries' healthcare centres is influenced and impacted by humans' interactions which manifests from culture and traditions. Due to the diverse nature of culture and traditions, it is near impossible to have single formula in addressing the patients' needs. As a result, the aim to improve quality of healthcare through HISs is challenged, and many stakeholders do not seem to understand the problem. The challenge continues to significantly contribute to poor service delivery, as the need for healthcare services increases. This study focused on the interaction between the healthcare professionals and the HISs, to understand how and why the challenges of using the ICT systems exist. This includes examining the implication, and how the challenges impact the recipients of healthcare services.

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